Jean Bonadvis
Jean Bonadvis (fl. 1717–1720){{efn|Last name also Bondavais, Bonnavee, or Bonnevie; first name occasionally Anglicized as John.}} was a French pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for his involvement with Benjamin Hornigold and "Calico Jack" Rackham.
History
Hornigold, working in concert with Captain Napin, had taken the sloop Bennet in April 1717. Hornigold made it his personal ship and sailed back to Nassau to resupply. Bonadvis was there to do the same, and had a reputation for “harshly treating” the locals.{{cite book|last1=Woodard|first1=Colin|title=The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down|date=2008|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|location=Orlando FL|isbn=978-0547415758|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5sIuoBrFwYC|language=en}} Hornigold had forced aboard a surgeon named John Howell some time earlier{{cite web|last1=Fictum|first1=David|title=The Firsts of Blackbeard: Exploring Edward Thatch's Early Days as a Pirate|url=https://csphistorical.com/2015/10/18/the-firsts-of-blackbeard-exploring-edward-thatchs-early-days-as-a-pirate/|website=Colonies, Ships, and Pirates|accessdate=26 July 2017|date=18 October 2015}} but had released him on Nassau, Howell having served only under threat. Bonadvis needed a surgeon for his ship Mary Anne and attempted to force Howell to join his crew.{{cite web|last1=Brooks|first1=Baylus C.|title=Trial of Dr. John Howell – Pirate Events of 300 Years Ago!|url=http://bcbrooks.blogspot.com/2017/02/trial-of-dr-john-howell-pirate-events.html|website=B.C. Brooks|accessdate=26 July 2017|date=19 February 2017}}
When Bonadvis’ men came to abduct Howell, local merchant William Pindar helped stall them until Howell could escape. He ran to see Richard Noland, a former pirate whom Hornigold had employed as a recruiter and agent on Nassau. Howell claimed "he would rather serve the English than French if he was compelled to make a choice of either,"{{cite web|title=Trial of Dr. John Howell, 18-29 Dec 1721, p.1|url=http://baylusbrooks.com/index_files/Page2224.htm|website=baylusbrooks.com|accessdate=26 July 2017}} so Noland arranged for Howell to be brought aboard Hornigold's ship again. Bonadvis confronted Hornigold and demanded Howell be turned over;{{cite book|last1=Brooks|first1=Baylus C.|title=Quest for Blackbeard: The True Story of Edward Thache and His World|date=2017|publisher=Lulu Press, Inc|location=Raleigh NC|isbn=9781365795923|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R39dDgAAQBAJ|accessdate=26 July 2017|language=en}} Hornigold left the decision to Howell, who chose to stay on the Bennet. Howell tried to escape more than once but was kept under guard.
By 1718 Bonadvis had accepted the general pardon offered to pirates by King George, along with Hornigold and hundreds more. Hornigold, Bonadvis, and a number of others soon accepted privateering commissions, hunting their fellow pirates who had refused the pardon. Bonadvis then spent some time attacking Spanish shipping; he caught and killed Turn Joe, an Irish captain who'd switched sides to sail for the Spanish.{{efn|Turn Joe had attacked three pirates in late 1718, forcing them ashore; one of them was John Auger, whom Hornigold would soon recapture.}}{{cite book|last1=Johnson|first1=Charles|title=The history of the pyrates: containing the lives of Captain Mission. Captain Bowen. Captain Kidd ... and their several crews|date=1724|publisher=T. Woodward|location=London|url=https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/17002|accessdate=26 July 2017|language=en}}
=Capture of Calico Jack=
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Late in 1720 he was sailing alongside Jonathan Barnet (under commission from Governor Nicholas Lawes) when he encountered John Rackham, alias “Calico Jack.”{{cite book|last1=Cordingly|first1=David|title=Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives|date=2009|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|location=New York|isbn=9780307490599|pages=84–85|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFtfx96d84UC|accessdate=26 July 2017|language=en}} Bonadvis approached Rackham's sloop William, which immediately fired on him.{{cite book|last1=Cordingly|first1=David|title=Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the True Story of the Pirates of the Caribbean|date=2012|publisher=A&C Black|location=London|isbn=9781408822166|page=191|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4lxncZ3_LgC|accessdate=26 July 2017|language=en}} Bonadvis retreated and reported Rackham's location to Barnet, who attacked and captured Rackham along with Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the rest of his crew. Bonadvis’ fate is not recorded.
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